Sweet Samantha

I haven't posted in awhile. Well on this blog! I have another one called My Photographer Too. Please go there and add it to your blogs. http://www.myphotographertoo.blogspot.com/. I have been trying to get my photography business up and going! It has been a slow process so hopefully it will stay around. ( :  I have also created a FB page with My Photography Too. Please "like" this also! It is fun taking pictures! Ok so enough about my new venture!

This post is about Samantha, Sami. She has been so sweet lately! She constantly wants in my lap. Lately she will just randomly look up and tell me "Mom! I love you!" This melts my heart. I overheard her tell her daddy that " MOM said I was AWESOME!" I had just told her she was awesome because she was really helping me clean for Mother's Day! It just made my day to hear her say that to her daddy!

I took the above photograph last night. If anyone knows Sami, she LOVES "Brown Puppy" (as she has recently named him) This just make my heart smile. You can really she her love for Brown Puppy in this photograph! I think she was actually saying to Brown Puppy.."Brown Puppy, you okay? You need a drink? You hungry? Okay I will get you something"

I love this little girl with all my heart!

Spring is here

I am soo bad at posting on this blog! I am a sit back and read other peoples blogs kinda person, I am going to try to post more. So Spring is finally here! I love love love this season and all the refreshing "newness" that comes with it. I love thunderstorms and we have had one this spring!! Hopefully we will get more. Everything just seems peaceful this year for me. Ready to tackle some home improvements and try my thumb at planting some flowers.

I photographed a wedding the other weekend ...so I have my card full of wedding photos..hopefully I can download the rest of them and clean my card up so I can shoot some spring photos today! If you know of anyone in the Lubbock area who needs some pictures send them my way. I am trying to get a side business open...if you could call it a business more like a hobby because my prices aren't ridiculous like most photographers. I look at it this way..I love to photograph people, places, and things. Why would I want to charge people a lot for something I love to do?  To me that just doesn't seem right. I want to be your "My Photographer Too." Oh she isn't just your photographer..she is "My Photographer Too!" Hence the name I picked out..My "business" is called My Photographer Too!

ok I really need to get off here and get Samantha up..we need to leave in 20 minutes! ( :

Have a blessed day and be still and let God bring some wonderful new thing in your life, if you will just let him!

Signing Off
Patty

Days 2 & 3

I didn't get a chance to blog yesterday about Day 2! Day 2 went good! I felt better and my hands didn't go as numb as they usually do!! So over all I had a great day! I weighed and lost weight!! So that's even good. I am sure it was water weight but hey I guess you have to get rid of that before you start losing fat!

Day 3 Wednesday was challenging! It was my company's Christmas Party..So there were A LOT of good things to eat!! and I will be totally honest I did eat them! But I didn't eat ALL of them like I normally would! All last night though I felt off..After shopping when we returned home, I got a mirgraine and went to bed. So with that being said, just two days off of sugar..and then I eat a small portion of sugar and feel like that..This may be easier than I thought if I just listen to my body and brain giving me signals. My hand also is numb as I type this! so we will see how no sugar today goes and if I have the same feelings tonight! I am reading a book called Skinny Bitch by Rory Freeman. WOW! It is a very quick read! Small Book! The book gives you the no sugar coated version of why stuff is bad..the girls that wrote it are some times vulgar but like I said the book isn't for those who don't like to cuss because that is ALL throughout the book. BUT it also gives you a "real" perspective on food. It talks about becoming a vegetarian and vegan. It gives some grea points. I may never eat meat of ANY kind again...several chapters are on slaughter houses and they give gory detals of how the animals die.  ANYWAY...it also gives you a real approach to all the other nutrition stuff you need to know.

Today is going to be another amazing day! Day 4..payday...off at 10:00 and I didn't gain any weight from the Christmas party!! Praise be to God who is walking with me through this new journey I am on!

May your Christmas be full of God, Jesus, and Family!

Day 1 on my road...

So Day  1 was was really good..I got hungry towards 10 o'clock...but I pressed on...I ate a salad for lunch with a 32 oz tea unsweetened. Then again I got hungry towards the end of the work day. Supper I made Shane and Samantha supper then made me grilled chicken and brown rice with water! For the most part I did good, though I did however have some pretzels and one hugs candy. Though minor things, I can't keep faultering with them. A lady at work brought in basically a half sheet cake that was left over from her daughter's graduation..I did resist that amongst everyones encouraging me to get a piece.

This might be really hard at work. I know I did this at a funny time, its part of the end result that helps me get through it. The end result to be healthier. When I succeed I will get to say, I started my new way of life at Christmas time 2011. I will be a skinny bitch and to top it off, I am going to get my pearl ring. I have always wanted a pearl ring...single pearl with an antique setting!! I have a design in my head, I need to put it on paper. When I become a skinny bitch, that ring will be mine!!

I weighted myself this morning, my efforts yesterday weren't in vain! That's a good sign. Keep on truckin on my road to a skinny bitch!

The Road to Becoming a Skinny Bitch?!

OK it is the middle of December and I am taking on a HUGE project! I am going to be a skinny bitch by December 2012!! I could have waited till all the festivities of the holiday were over but what an awesome thing to say..hey I started my path to become a skinny bitch in the worst time, cookies, candies, etc, and I succeeded! I don't know how I am going to do it yet but mainly by changing my eating habits and exercising more(I just realized I put more..I am going to be honest ..exercising AT ALL) . It is going to be a life style change and NOT a diet!  I have done diets..They FAIL..EVERY TIME...It may take more than 1 year, but I will be a skinny bitch! I will post a starting picture later!

Off to the temptations at work!  I CAN DO THIS!!

Pumkin Trail 2011

These are my two Little Nerdy School Kids!! They won 1st place in the costume contest!! The prize was a candy bucket filled, of course with SMARTIES!! The greatest candy EVER!!

And to top it off, we are going to dress them up each year like this and enter a costume contest. That is until they tell us to stop!! You have to love last minute costumes that win contests!! LOVE IT!

My calling

It is really hard to blog when you have a million other things going on..clean the house, make sure the kid is still kicking and has not gotten into anything she doesn't need to be in..I have been extremely sick these past couple of days and haven't wanted to do ANYTHING!! But blogging has been on my mind so I thought while Sami is in amazement with Aristocats, thought I might sneak one in today! This one might be too deep for some and others hopefully it helps..

I have wandered what my calling was from God...This hasn't been a recent thing by far..I always wonder what I am supposed to do on this earth..what my purpose was.. There has been several things lately that have all come back to prayer..you might have noticed on my FB that I have prayed for alot of people lately. This is because I am coming to the realization that this might be my calling. Ok so if it is..then I AM TERRIFIED..1) I have asked God for this not to be my thing ..ya know..I am not the one to sit down in a group and pray..tried that in college and HATED it.. 2. I haven't been big in church all my life..until recently..growing up my mama believed if you believe you were still going to go to Heaven..So if my calling s to pray someone needs to teach me all the in's and out's...

If this is my calling I need to learn to do it right..ok back to why I believe this is my calling ...I have been praying through faith lately for alot of friends and family..and it seems like God is hearing my prayers..It kinda creeps me out because I will pray for specific things..and they will happen..Let me clairify..not creepy like as in Friday the 13th creepy..but why listen to me out of all these people on the world..creepy.. This has all happened soo fast. This realization that prayer might be my thing on this earth..and if it is I want to make sure..because that is a BIG deal..

ok more aboout this later..sami is now in my lap

praying for all